Auxiliary attachment for razor-strops



- C. H. RICHARDSON. AUXILIARY ATTACHMENT FOR RAZOR STROPS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30. I9I6..

Patented Dee. 30,1919.

A TTOIMEYS /3 1 I lll' H l# HIIHIHHII CHARLES H. RICHARDSON, OF DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE,

AUXILIARY ATTACHMENT FOR RAZOR-STROPS.

Application filed March 30, 1916.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. RICHARD- sox, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Dover, in the county of Straiford and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inv or concave contour, with the result that the stropping of the razor is across its edge.

My invention also relates, more specilically, to an attachment capable of instant attachment or removal without changing the attachment or the strop.

My invention overcomes the fault of flexible strops by providing a support therefor preferably composed of yieldingly resisting material, and the main object of my invention is to provide such a support as an article of manufacture and adapted for instant connection with and disconnection from a strop whereby one support may be used upon each of a plurality of strops at will as, for instance, with the canvas strop at one moment and with the leather strop the next moment, these swing strops generally providing both the canvas and the leather members.

My invention further contemplates the provision of a normally convexed surface to the support which is presented to the strop and which yields to the pressure of a razor into an approximately fiat state and thus causes the stropping of the razor to be accomplished on the lines lof the original grinding and honing, instead of across the edge whereby the latter is rounded.

My invention is fully described in the following specilication, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like characters refer to like parts in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my 1nvention showing its position on a swing strop of simple strap type, the latter being indicated by dotted lines;

Fiom 2 is a section taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale; v

Fig. -l is a perspective view of my inven- Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 30, 1919.

serial No. 87,707.

tion applied to another type of swing strop, partly broken away.

My invention consists of a convexed strip 6 composed of resilient material of a desired length though shorter than the strop upon which it is to be used and of a width approximating the width of said strop, though preferably slightly less, the dimensions of said strip being arbitrary as will be understood.

Each end of the strip 6 is provided with a transversely arranged bar 7 at a slight distance from and parallel to the strip 6 `and forming an open loop, the free ends of said bars being inwardly bent, as shown at 8, to form guards.

In practice, a strop 9 is slipped into one of the loops formed by the bars 7 until the strop is within the respective guard 8, after which the strop is slipped within the loop at the other end of the strip 6 also within this guard 8, and the strop is ready for use.

Because of the connections between the strip 6 and the bars 7 and of the guards 8 no lateral movement of the strop with respect to the strip 6' is possible unless the material of which the strop is composed be flexed to pass beneath one of the guards 8, such manual flexing permitting instant separation of the strop and strip whenever desired, and the supporting strip 6 may be as readily transferred to another strop.

In Fig. 4C is shown a double strop in which the member 9 may be leather and the member 10 canvas, a swivel ring being provided at one end and a handle at the other, but the strop construction is of no moment to my invention other than that it is free of any base which might prevent the attaching of my support thereto.

In order to insure against downward slipping of the support upon the strop when the latter is not in use and is depending from a hook, or the equivalent, I may provide a stop 12 on the strop, this consisting of a large headed screw and a nut therefor in the form illustrated but any suitable equivalent therefor might be substituted.

The support is an attachment which may be quickly applied or removed from an ordinary swinging strop and forms no integral part of the strop. The attachment, when in use however, is intended to cause an ordinary swinging strop to assume a substantially straight line when the pressure on the razor is brought to bear thereon as it passes thereover during the stropping operation. TvVhere the swinging strop is used Without any support the razor during the stropping operation moves in the arc of a circle and consequently the edge is more or less rounded or turned over, While the use o the support Will cause the strop to be moved only toga straight line as the razor is passed thereover, whereby the edge will not be turned over. The support though quickly and easily applied and removed is lirmly held in position at each end because the retaining members at the ends are oiset in a direction substantially parallel to the body of the strop and thereby cause the strop to be kinked for producing` a gripping action between the strop and the retaining meinbers.

lt will thus be seen that a person needs but one of my supports for use With each of a plurality of strops and, While I have shown two practical embodiments of attaching moans or the support, it Will be obvious that other forms may suggest themselves and be Within the scope of the appended claims. l

Having fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. As an article of manufacture, a razor strop support, comprising a strip of yield ing material provided at its ends With transverse bars each secured at one of its ends to the strip and spaced therefrom to form therewith loops through which the ends of the razor strop are adapted to be passed, the free ends of the said bars being bent to forni guides for the longitudinal edges of the strop.

2. An attachment for a swinging strop comprising a permanently bowed resilient body having a looped retaining member at each end, each of said looped retaining members having an opening at one side of the body, said retaining members being ofset in a direction substantially normal to the surface of said body to cause the strop to be kinked and thereby produce a gripping action between the members and the strop.

CHARLES H. RCHARDSON.

W'itnesses:

ROY C. SMITH, VILLIAM H. PINKHAM. 

